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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Night of the Owls | Comics

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Night of the Owls | Comics
During the period of Wild West in 1880's, Gotham City was visited by Amadeus Arkham and Jonah Hex for investigation purpose. Then Hex encounters a female Talon assassin of the Court for the first time that resembled to his dead wife a little and to a point, he was even manipulated to work for them. Alan Wayne, Edward Elliot, Theodore Cobblepot and Burton Crowne saw a street performer make his way to Haley's Circus that originated the Grayson surname as "Gray Son of Gotham" and how he got involved with the Court in the upcoming years. As the existence of Court of the Owls is now revealed by Batman after ages, the armies of the ruthless Talon assassins are sent out to take control of the city and destroy anyone who comes in their path.

Batman and his expanding Bat-Family are also caught in the middle of the battle and are trying their best to save the citizens of Gotham from the wrath of the Court and its members. As they all are desperately busy fighting these undead killers, the Wayne Manor fell under attack and Bruce came up with a new combat suit of armor to confront the attackers. Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Robin, Catwoman, Birds of Prey and others are also confronted by the deadly Talons. Meanwhile, Nightwing also discovers more of his clouded past and about his bloodline that proves a connection to the Court. It’s a deadly and dreaded dark night upon for the vigilantes of Gotham as they might finally meet their ultimate defeat at the hands of evil.

For more information on the Night of the Owls, you can check out these links below.

Night of the Owls (Comics) Wikipedia


Night of the Owls (Comics) DC Wikia

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Assault of The Court
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02. Nightwing V3 08


03. Detective Comics V2 09


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05. Batman V2 09


06. Batgirl V4 09


07. Batman and Robin V2 09


08. Birds of Prey V3 09


09. Catwoman V4 09


10. Nightwing V3 09


11. Red Hood and the Outlaws 09


12. All-Star Western V3 09


13. Batman – The Dark Knight V2 09

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The Talons Strikes

14. Batman Annual V2 01

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Batman – Night of the Owls (Softcover)


Batman – Night of the Owls (Hardcover)


Night of the Owls is a major comic event and the first ever crossover in The New 52 continuity of the DC Universe after the ‘Flashpoint’ timeline. This event starts at the aftermath of Court of the Owls storyline and tied to ‘City of Owls’. Writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire, Superman Unchained) and artist Greg Capullo (Haunt, Spawn) served the core plot for the Batman titles which is the main focus of this crossover. Other Bat-related monthly ongoing titles were also part of the main event that tied the entire crossover.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Wonder Woman – New 52 | Comics

The ancient legends foretold that Amazonian princess Diana Prince was born of The Amazon's Queen Hippolyta’s strong desire for a child, who molded her daughter out of a lump of clay and then later breathed life into it, who was blessed with the powers of the Gods of Olympus. However, her seemingly perfect birth story was actually a fake and she learned about her true origin as she grew up but this revelation came with a great personal burden that she has been carrying ever since. Not only she is the greatest among her own race, she is also a champion of justice.

Year One
Up until Steve Trevor crash-landed in a plane to the secret island of Themyscira, Diana never knew much of the outside world and always wanted to go and explore it. The Amazon's decided to send Trevor back to Man's World with one of them as an ambassador and there was a tournament of Amazons to find out who that would be. Diana bested her sisters and even passed the final test by her mother before receiving her fabled Lasso of Truth. In United States, she stopped a terrorist attack and the press immediately dubbed her "Wonder Woman".

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Wonder Woman – New 52 | Comics

Blood
It was kept as a secret for Diana's sake all along because of the infamous jealousy of Zeus's wife Hera and she has become a powerful Amazon fatale because of her divine bloodline. When Zeus goes missing and Hera was up with her evil scheme after finding out the secret origin of Wonder Woman, she went to Themyscira to exact vengeance on Queen Hippolyta. Diana later learns that she was actually the daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta. This demigoddess successfully thwarted her plans of killing Athena's young incarnation Zola for carrying Zeus's child and learnt about her origin using her golden Lasso of Truth.

Justice League: Origin
With her liaison Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman was in Washington D.C. for her duties as a representative of her people but then she almost immediately joined the team of Aquaman, Batman, Cyborg, Green lantern, Superman and The Flash in the wake of the Parademons invasion from Apokolips heralding their master Darkseid. Diana bravely fought against the demonic invading army and even bested The Dark God himself, wounding one of his eyes. She finds a liking in Superman in the battlefield. The magnificent seven of them soon forms the Justice League and made their alliance known to public.

Guts
While Diana was busy dealing with Hera on Mount Olympus, Hades kidnapped Zola and took her to Hell. She seeks assistance from Hephaestus and Hades sent a monster to kill them all but Diana took it down. She also learns a shocking truth of a race of men who are her long-lost abandoned brothers. In Hell, Eros, Hermes, Lennox and Wonder Woman found Zola after fighting the minions Hades have sent after them. As they were about to leave, Hades states that one of them should leave behind and since Diana couldn't arrange his marriage with Hera, she should remain as his wife.

Using Eros' pistols, Hades shot Diana to make her fall under love's spell. When he asked her to prove her love to him, she managed to break from the bond as it is in her capacity to love everyone but since Hades is unknown about the concept of love, he couldn't understand it. Artemis and Apollo then kidnap Zola to hand her over to Hera in exchange for the throne of Mount Olympus. Diana arrives to save Zola and reminded Apollo of a prophecy of a child of Zeus killing a god for the throne. Thus, threatening him to leave Zola and her child alone or she will fulfill the prophecy herself.

Iron
When Zola gave birth to a son, it was taken away by Hermes, who gave the baby to Demeter. Hera is rendered mortal after being cast out from Olympus and is forced to hang out with them. As she seeks her brother Milan for clues to find the baby, Wonder Woman crosses paths with the New God Orion, who's after Zola's son. In Manhattan, Zola and Hera was found in a bar with War, who leads them to Demeter. Diana and Orion even worked together to find the boy before War took the baby ripping from Demeter and she eventually managed to retrieve the boy from her uncle.

War
Wonder Woman finally came to terms with War and he admitted her success in impaired family into a strong alliance. The boy has been named Zeke and Apollo sent Artemis to kill the boy only to be defeated by Diana. Two other illegitimate offspring of Zeus; First Born and Cassandra attacked the band, setting them off-balance. To move everyone to safety, Orion opened a Boom Tube to New Genesis and Lennox decides to sacrifice himself to keep First Born from chasing his allies. After they took some time to heal, Diana wished to get back to Earth and Highfather complied. She came back in London to face an army of hyena men of the First Born and unexpectedly received help from Ares.

Flesh
When challenged and engaged in a fight with the First Born, Wonder Woman quickly realizes that she cannot bring him down as easily as she thought. To give Diana a fighting chance, War confronts the First Born and she impaled both of them with a spear. War died happily seeing her becoming a great warrior and War's helmet is given to Diana by Strife after she is declared the Goddess of War by the Gods of Olympus. As she goes to face Cassandra, Diana is accompanied by Hermes, Orion and Siracca. Hera was restored of her godhood by Apollo before he died and she brought all Amazons back to life.

Bones
Though Hera turned all Amazons as they were except Hippolyta and she was unable to revert the Amazon Queen with her power. Wonder Woman tells Zola to stay on Themyscira with Zeke and told her sisters to change their social views about men as she brought her abandoned brothers to Paradise Island. They all prepare to face First Born since he was attacking other gods in order to conquer all and Diana was captured by him. She planned on place Zeke on the throne of Olympus to end all madness but Zola and Zeke eventually turned out to be a reincarnation of Athena and Zeus.

War-Torn
In absence of Queen Hippolyta, Diana had to accept the Amazon throne till she brings her mother back to normal. When the Justice League came to investigate an environmental catastrophe, she had a run in with Swamp Thing, thinking he is responsible. Meanwhile, the Amazon council forces her to choose between staying in Paradise Island forever as their Queen or leave the throne. Troubled with these choices, she found comfort in the spirit of Hippolyta who suggested her to follow her duty as God of War. She discovered that the Amazon have created a warrior from magical clay named Donna Troy to take her place as Queen.

For more information on Wonder Woman – New 52 comics series, you can check out the links below.

Wonder Woman – The New 52 (Comics) Wikipedia


Wonder Woman – The New 52 (Comics) DC Wikia



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Tussle With Darkseid

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Wonder Woman Vol 01 – Blood (Softcover)


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Wonder Woman Vol 02 – Guts (Softcover)


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Wonder Woman Vol 03 – Iron (Softcover)


Wonder Woman Vol 03 – Iron (Hardcover)


Wonder Woman Vol 04 – War (Softcover)


Wonder Woman Vol 04 – War (Hardcover)


Wonder Woman Vol 05 – Flesh (Softcover)


Wonder Woman Vol 05 – Flesh (Hardcover)


Wonder Woman Vol 06 – Bones (Softcover)


Wonder Woman Vol 06 – Bones (Hardcover)

Wonder Woman Vol 07 – War Torn (Softcover)


Wonder Woman Vol 07 – War Torn (Hardcover)

Wonder Woman is one of the most popular DC Comics fictional super heroines based on the idea of William Moulton Marston in 1941. The character gained a new and revised origin point in The New 52 rebooted timeline of the Prime Earth. Currently, the post-Flashpoint fourth monthly ongoing volume of Wonder Woman is being plotted by writer Brian Azzarello (Deathblow, Hellblazer) and illustrated by artist Cliff Chiang and it started publishing by DC Comics from 2011 along with other The New 52 titles. Aside from her regular appearance on her solo book, Wonder Woman also features on the monthly issues of the Justice League series on a regular basis.

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A Goddess Among Mortals

Before being re-introduced to the post-Flashpoint timeline, Wonder Woman already had many decades worth of legacy that was sort of re-imagined by the series creators. Diana had a long-ongoing thing going on with Steve Trevor but that did not work out in the end and she hooked-up with the Man of Steel. So, she commonly appears alongside Superman in a monthly ongoing series of their own titled Superman/Wonder Woman, which mostly focuses on relationship aspects of Clark and Diana as well as the impact this pairing has on the whole world. Diana of Themyscira was also involved as well as in action during many controversial and world-ending events on Prime Earth.
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Lex Luthor – New 52 | Comics

There is one thing that is bigger than Lex Luthor's brilliance and wealth; his ego. A self-made man with a superiority complex, he made fortune by selling Battlesuits as the owner of LexCorp and that's how he became the most dominant business of Metropolis.

He was recruited into a secret government project Project: Steel Soldier against Superman with General Lane. Luthor stole Kryptonite from them and then leaked the news to Clark Kent. He was imprisoned for helping Brainiac but was released for lack of evidence.

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Lex Luthor – New 52 | Comics

After Justice League was formed, he was sent to prison again for selling super-weapons, thanks to Superman. During his time in prison, Superman would've visited him many times for his opinion on scientific catastrophes as well as Pandora (Trinity War).

Luthor was released and returned as CEO of LexCorp. When the Crime Syndicate took over the world, he decided to stop them. So, he assembled Bizarro, Black Adam, Black Manta, Captain Cold, Deathstroke and Sinestro to aid the duo of Batman and Catwoman.

He managed to save Nightwing's life, killed his Earth 3 counterpart and then defeated Ultraman (Forever Evil). Afterwards, he was considered as a hero and eventually joined the Justice League to fight the Amazo Virus (Injustice League).

As Darkseid dies after his battle with Anti-Monitor, Luthor absorbed a large amount of Anti-Life Equation energy, becoming the "God of Apokolips" and ruled Apokolips (Darkseid War). He returned to Earth after "The Final Days of Superman" and took his mantle wearing Superman's cape.

For more information on Lex Luthor – New 52 comics series, you can check out the links below.

Lex Luthor – The New 52 (Comics) Wikipedia

Lex Luthor – The New 52 (Comics) DC Wikia

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Greatest Criminal Mind

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Action Comics Vol 01 – Superman and the Men of Steel (Softcover)

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Action Comics Vol 02 – Bulletproof (Softcover)

Action Comics Vol 02 – Bulletproof (Hardcover)

Superman Unchained (Softcover)

Superman Unchained (Hardcover)

Action Comics Vol 03 – At The End of Days (Softcover)

Action Comics Vol 03 – At The End of Days (Hardcover)

Action Comics Vol 04 – Hybrid (Softcover)

Action Comics Vol 04 – Hybrid (Hardcover)

Forever Evil (Softcover)

Forever Evil (Hardcover)

Justice League Vol 06 – Injustice League (Softcover)

Justice League Vol 06 – Injustice League (Hardcover)

Justice League – Darkseid War Part 01 (Softcover)

Justice League – Darkseid War Part 01 (Hardcover)

Justice League – Darkseid War Part 02 (Softcover)

Justice League – Darkseid War Part 02 (Hardcover)

A prominent villain of DC Comics, Lex Luthor first appeared on the pages of Action Comics #23, upon his creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1940. After "Flashpoint" crossover event changed the entire reality of New Earth and replaced with Prime Earth, Luthor received a rebooted origin, where he started as a baddy and finally ended up playing hero.

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Luthor Saves The World!

Writer Geoff Johns (Flash – Rebirth, Green Lantern – Rebirth) and Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Final Crisis) were pretty much involved for his character development. Starting his journey in The New 52 by debuting on the second volume of Action Comics, issue #1, Lex has played the role of Superman's arch-nemesis to his teammate, ultimately donning the cape following "DC Universe – Rebirth".
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